Washington, DC – This afternoon, Senate Republicans led by West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito released legislation that would overhaul federal permitting requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other federal environmental protection laws including the Clean Water Act and Endan
WASHINGTON, DC – DC Mayor Muriel Bowser signed groundbreaking legislation to transition new buildings and DC government operations off fossil fuels.
Mayor Bowser signed into law the Clean Energy DC Building Code Act, requiring that by 2026, all new buildings in DC are net-zero energy and produce the energy they use on-site from renewable sources. The bill expressly prohibits the combustion of dirty fuels in buildings, including fracked gas and fossil gas alternatives from sources like animal manure.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) agreed to expand the capacity of Freeport LNG, a methane gas export facility in Texas and the site of a recent explosion. The investigation into the cause of the explosion has still not been completed. The decision was made during the agency’s monthly meeting.
BRUSSELS -- Today, European Union adopted its RePowerEU plan to begin eliminating Russian fossil fuel imports. RePowerEU will focus on increasing energy efficiency and demand savings, reducing bottlenecks for clean energy projects, and expanding solar energy, with the goal of cutting the EU’s fossil gas imports from Russia by two-thirds this year and the remaining one-third by 2027. At the same time, the EU also released its International Energy Strategy, which will partially focus on increasing imports of false solutions like blue hydrogen and fossil gas through deals with the US, Egypt, Israel, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Japan, Korea, and other countries.
La Agencia Federal de Protección Ambiental (EPA) anunció una propuesta para reducir las emisiones de camiones pesados, una fuente significativa de contaminación del aire que impacta desproporcionadamente a latinos y otras comunidades de color.
Democrats in the Pennsylvania State Senate introduced a package of bills designed to address the harms of the fracking industry
Equitrans Midstream Corporation announced that they were delaying the in-service date and raising the total cost of the fracked gas MVP yet again
NCDEQ announced its second rejection of MVP's efforts to extend into NC
the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) voted 4-0, with the federal government abstaining, to outlaw all fracking operations in the Delaware River Basin
investors representing $244.9 billion in assets under management sent letters to ten of the biggest banks in America urging them to stop funding the controversial fracked gas MVP
a group of environmental and financial organizations announced the launch of the DivestMVP coalition
DEQ will host a virtual public hearing Monday on whether to grant an air permit for the extension of the controversial MVP